Regarding
the European REACH regulation which is applicable to all industry across the
entire European Economic Area, COMPUTADORES REDES e INGENIERIA SAU (Crisa)
declares:

What
is REACH?

REACH is the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation (and restriction) of
Chemicals. The first of a set of chemicals related regulations entered into
force on 1st June, 2007 to streamline and improve the former legislative
framework on chemicals (substances in REACH terminology) within the European
Economic Area (EEA). REACH places much greater responsibility on industry to
manage the risks that substances may pose to health and the environment.

REACH has two main goals:

1. To improve the protection of human health and the environment by
gradually eliminating hazardous substances from use.

2. Increase the communication through the entire supply with respect to
hazardous substances and the products (preparations and articles) that
contain them.

So What Does REACH Actually Require?

REACH is extremely complex legislation that has many requirements for industry.
The main ones are as follows.

1. Registration: Requires every manufacturer (or importer) of almost all
substances used in industry to register that substance with ECHA by one of three
pre-determined deadlines. If the manufacturer has not registered the substance
by the appropriate deadline, then that manufacturer may no longer place the
substance on the market in the EEA.

2. Communication of uses: Requires users of substances, or preparations that
contain them, to submit their specific uses to the manufacturer using a five
part use-code. If the manufacturer does not accept this use by including it on
the Safety Data Sheet, then the user may no longer use the substance for that
use.

3. Communication of Candidate List substances: Identifies certain substances
as Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) which, when added to the Candidate
List, require additional reporting:

a. Inform customers and custodians of articles distributed outside of the
legal entity if the article contains more than a threshold amount of any
such substance.

b. Inform ECHA if the legal entity uses more than one tonne of the
substances in its products each year.

4. Authorisation: Any substance on the Candidate List included also in the
Annex XIV requires ECHA authorisation in order to be used after a predetermined
sunset date.

5. Reclassifies many substances as hazardous, when previously they were not.

6. Significantly increases the amount of information that must be included on
a Safety Data Sheet and imposes a new communication for substances in articles.

7. Imposes new labelling and packaging requirements for hazardous substances
and preparations.

Which Ones Affect Crisa?

Registration:

Crisa does not manufacture or import substances in significant quantities,
so the process of registration does not apply to Crisa.

Crisa does, however, have to ensure that the substances used, including
those in preparations, have been duly registered by the manufacturer.

Authorisation:

It is Crisa policy not to use a substance that requires ECHA authorisation
as far as possible. Crisa will start replacement activities as soon as a
substance gets added to the Candidate List.

Implementation:

Crisa has worked coordinated with Astrium to ensure that the legislation is
correctly interpreted for the Crisa business case and that we do no more
than is necessary to comply with that interpretation.

Therefore with this letter we can declare that Crisa is complying with the
legislation and Crisa is working to maintain and control the compliance of that
Reach regulation.